My schedule has been crazy. Last week I got back the copyedited and laid-out versions of two significant longer articles that I needed to review very carefully. One was my piece on Hamas for Boston Review. The other was my article on the british counter-insurgency campaign in Kenya for Radical History Review. Each required a lot of concentration, and also required me to re-upload a huge amount of arcane knowledge back into my poor suffering grey cells.
And that was before I got an enquiry from Paradigm Publishers as to whether I’d finished reviewing the copyedited version my book on post-atrocity policies in Africa, that they had sent to me in early April… But the darn thing never arrived in my AOL inbox!!!!! So now the book’s editing and production schedule has been delayed by a whole month… and instead of having some nice leisurely time in early April to go over that edit, I need to be doing it between last Thursday and May 17 or so– a period when I already had a horrendous amount of projects scheduled.
Okay, whine, whine, whine. Now I’ll shut up. This morning I told myself “Okay Helena repeat after me: ‘It’s great that I have such a lot of such great, meaningful work to do.’… ” So yes, okay, it’s great. But still, it has felt a bit burdensome. (She takes a deep breath.)
Actually, it’s proceeding okay. I just finished reviewing Ch.4 of the copyedits on the book. I have two chapters to go– and then I need to compose things like the Preface, the Dedication, etc.
And I’ve been doing a bunch of other things, too.
In a couple of hours, I’m driving to DC. I’ll be there a couple of nights. Going to a good mini-conference tomorrow morning that I’ll try to blog about… Then I’m helping to set up the Eyes Wide Open exhibit that’s going to take a poignant antiwar message to the National Mall. …
All this is to say that i recognize that my posting onto JWN has been a little spotty these past few days, and may be for the next few days, too. But I’ll do what I can. Anyway, Blair and Bush are both still in big trouble. That hasn’t changed– so having that headline at the top there for the past few days hasn’t been bad, at all.
Now, I’m going to post a couple of things quickly before I leave for DC….
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Is there any chance of the Kenyan article being accessible online? I clicked over to the Radical History Review and it didn’t seem as though one could read their articles on the web, though maybe I just didn’t click on the right spot.
I read your piece on the Caroline Elkins (I think that was her name) book some time back and I’ve glanced at her book (and the other one by David Anderson, I think) in one of the local libraries. They both looked very interesting. I gather the number of deaths that Elkins claimed the British caused is disputed, so I was interested to see if you had any comment on that.
DJ– I think I’m entitled to place a copy on my own website, and I plan to do that once I have the final clean copy.
Back in that earlier post about the Elkins book I wrote about the criticisms a Mr. David Elstein had expressed about her estimates of numbers that,
I would be inclined to stick with the Elkins-Nottingham view of what happened, rather than with that of this strange, seemingly uncredentialed person who looks as though he is pursuing some kind of slimy international vendetta against Elkins.
Do go ahead and read her book, yes.